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Noriko Sengoku

29 May, 1922 in Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan

Reiko Mori (April 29, 1922 – December 27, 2012), known by her stage name Noriko Sengoku, was a Japanese film and television actress active primarily in the 1950s and 1960s. She made her film debut in 1947 and starred in several of Akira Kurosawa's early films such as Drunken Angel, ... The Quiet Duel, Stray Dog, Scandal, The Idiot and Seven Samurai. During the war, she was a member of the traveling theater troupe Sakura-tai , which was wiped out in the Hiroshima atomic bombing . However, she escaped the atomic bombing because she was away from Hiroshima giving birth She was highly praised as a great supporting actress, and excelled in the role of a spiteful landlady. She believed that "a supporting role is like a 'screw in each corner'; if even one screw comes loose, the whole thing falls apart."

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千石规子Noriko Sengoku

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The Idiot
70% (1951)
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Drunken Angel
77% (1948)
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Scandal
69% (1950)
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Fifty-Fifty
100% (1963)
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恐妻時代
0% (1952)
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Dotanba
60% (1956)
Evening Calm
90% (1957)
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Okoge
60% (1992)
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Sweet Sweat
84% (1964)
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Out
57% (2002)
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Foghorn
100% (1952)
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The Face
0% (1957)
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White Beast
57% (1950)
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The Big Wave
100% (1961)
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Rebellion
70% (1957)
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Weeping Doll
0% (1951)
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Actress
70% (1947)
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Beast Alley
70% (1965)
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Hotoke
100% (2001)
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Aces Wild
80% (1961)
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Jiyūgaoka fujin
100% (1960)
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Ken
77% (1964)
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Dorei no machi
0% (1951)
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Kōruisō
0% (1951)
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Count on Me
0% (1960)